Nihon

See also: nihon

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 日本 (Nihon). Doublet of Nippon and Japan.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Nihon

1. (rare) Japan.
   • 1993 November 17, David Richardson, “Exchange student to Nihon!”, in sci.lang.japan‎^[1] (Usenet), retrieved 5 June 2022:
   • 1993 December 26, Gabriele Schramm, “places to live in Nihon?”, in soc.culture.japan‎^[2] (Usenet), retrieved 5 June 2022:
   • 1994 January 16, Rikiya Asano, “AIDS on the way to Japan”, in soc.culture.japan‎^[3] (Usenet), retrieved 1 June 2022:

     It is stooopid and insensative for you to indirectly say that AIDS will come to Nihon via Thailand. AIDS is already in Nihon! And your attempt to make Japanese racists on the incorrect fear that Thailand will bring this disease to Nihon is out of line and very evil which is a characteristic of your race!

   • 1996 February 5, sumimasen... ima nanji desu ka, “pen pals in nihon? 8)”, in sci.lang.japan‎^[4] (Usenet), retrieved 5 June 2022:
   • 1996 February 25, Kurt Pertsch, “WORKING IN NIHON”, in soc.culture.japan‎^[5] (Usenet), retrieved 5 June 2022:
   • 2010 August 1, mtfe...@netmapsonscape.net, “Back from Nihon”, in fj.life.in-japan‎^[6] (Usenet), retrieved 5 June 2022:
   • 2016 November 30, “IUPAC Announces the Names of the Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118”, in IUPAC‎^[7]:

     The name nihonium with the symbol Nh for element 113 was proposed by the discoverers at RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science (Japan); the name came from Nihon which is one of the two ways to say “Japan” in Japanese, and literally mean “the Land of Rising Sun”.

Related terms

• Nihongo

Cornish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 日本 (Nihon). Doublet of Japan.

Proper noun

Nihon

1. Japan (a country in East Asia)

   Synonym: Japan

Derived terms

• ethbys Nihon (“fatsi”)
• keuspren Nihon (“Japanese cheesewood”)
• klethra Nihon (“Japanese clethra”)
• mahonya Nihon (“mahonia”)
• nihonek (“Japanese”, adjective)
• Nihonek (“Japanese language”, noun)

Japanese

Romanization

Nihon

1. Rōmaji transcription of にほん
2. Rōmaji transcription of ニホン